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Coffee.club sold for $100,000!

  • 20 November 2014
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New domains are doing really well. Here are a few facts and figures to prove that launching new domain extensions was a very good idea indeed! When ICANN announced its...

Belgians still do it with their computer

  • 10 November 2014
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Every year, Google unveils its Consumer Barometer, which offers insights on what Internet users do online, what device they use, where they buy stuff (online or offline) and what they...

Dag van de Webshop XL: enjoyment to be tripled in 2014!

  • 5 November 2014
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For the fourth edition of Dag van de Webshop, which will be held on 6, 7 and 8 November 2014, many web stores, both small and large, will once again...

Ever faster deliveries… do customers really want them?

  • 21 October 2014
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Web stores compete among each other, promising the fastest delivery – a trend eagerly met by logistics companies. But is the financial and ecological cost of that fast delivery really...

Important security advisory about Drupal 7

  • 16 October 2014
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Yesterday, an important vulnerability has been found in the source code of Drupal 7. This issue concerns a problem that allows hackers to execute about any query on your Drupal database by means...

Attention à la fraude liée aux noms de domaines

Beware of domain name scams !

  • 14 October 2014
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If you get a phone call from someone who tries to sell you a .com or .eu variation of the domain that you have registered in the .nl or .be...

Amazon may well have its .buy, but .amazon is probably not in the cards…

  • 10 October 2014
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Tough luck for Amazon: it will probably not get to be the operator of the new .amazon gTLD. There is one comfort though: it is not the only company that...

Startups.be, the new partner of the Cloud Angel Webfund

  • 8 October 2014
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The Cloud Angel Webfund (www.combell.fund), which Combell launched a few months ago, is now strengthened by the addition of Startups.be. Startups.be is a one-stop shop for Belgian technology start-ups and...

ESSENTIEL Antwerp designs a stylish web shop on Combell’s flexible infrastructure

  • 21 August 2014
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From now on, the Belgian fashion design house ESSENTIEL Antwerp also sells its branded apparel online. The web shop, which runs on the open source platform Magento, combines an elegant...

EU forces websites to offer better protection to Internet users

  • 6 November 2013
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A better protection of e-commerce users automatically leads to more confidence from these users, and therefore also to more purchases of both physical and digital goods. Through targeted audits, the...

October 30th is the “Day of the Web shop”

  • 23 September 2013
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For the third year in a row, October 30th will be the Day of the Web shop. It will be an opportunity to discover large and small web stores and...

E-commerce outside of Europe achieved double-digit growth

  • 2 August 2013
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The Middle East and the Maghreb countries are doing surprisingly well in e-commerce. In any case, better than Europe, where most countries show a growth rate of less than 10%....